Re: PB 170 seems to work with 3.5

Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I just wanted to report that the PowerBook 170 seems to work and I
> included it in the supported list as "full" even if there was little
> testing.
> 
> Unfortunately the hard disk is small (100mb for root-usr) and OpenBSD
> base instalation is already too big. When I discussed this with a guy on
> #openbsd I just got kick-banned by another :)
> Having apache, perl and other stuff included already in base.tz makes
> install on older system unfeasible, unfortunately.
> But I installed enough stuff to be able to boot, mount the root
> read-write, use VI, tp and check that the dmsg output was meaninful.
> Somehow cute !
> I think I will try NetBSD which has a leaner base system.
> 
> note that the PB 170 is a 68030 system and has built in FPU (other pb's
> like the 140 had not)
> 
> Cheers,
>         Riccardo

I presume you had no network support, right?

Personally, I have trouble calling anything "fully supported" without
any ability to tie to an Ethernet network.

Perhaps I'm a Ethernet biggot, but serial port networking just doesn't
hold a lot of interest to me. :)

Nick.
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